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    The Itsy Bitsy Spider Inspired a Microphone

    Engineers and scientists have an enduring fascination with spider silk. Similar to typical worm silk that makes for comfy bedsheets, but much tougher, the...

    Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years. Here’s How to Keep Them Working.

    Every smartphone has an expiration date. That day arrives when the software updates stop coming and you start missing out on new apps and...

    Art Market Seeks Its Footing After Stumbling Sales and a Hack at Christie’s

    Estimates are still soaring past the $20 million mark and canvases still bear the signatures of dependable ringers like Warhol, Basquiat and Picasso. But...

    U.S. Awards $120 Million to Polar Semiconductor to Expand Chip Facility

    Federal officials will provide up to $120 million in grants to Polar Semiconductor to help the company expand its chip manufacturing facility in Minnesota,...

    Go on, let bots date other bots

    Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an...

    Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors

    Apple’s top software executives decided early last year that Siri, the company’s virtual assistant, needed a brain transplant.The decision came after the executives Craig...

    Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends – The New York Times

    Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeKevin reports on his monthlong experiment cultivating relationships with 18 companions generated by...

    GM to Retire the Chevy Malibu to Make More EVs

    General Motors said on Wednesday that it would stop making the Chevrolet Malibu, the last affordable sedan in its U.S. model lineup and a...

    Biden to Announce A.I. Center in Wisconsin as Part of Economic Agenda

    President Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce the creation of an artificial intelligence data center, highlighting one of his administration’s biggest...

    OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

    As experts warn that images, audio and video generated by artificial intelligence could influence the fall elections, OpenAI is releasing a tool designed to...

    Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks

    Sohail Prasad, an entrepreneur, launched a fund in March called the Destiny Tech100. The fund owns shares in hot tech start-ups like the payments...

    Final Arguments in Google Antitrust Trial Conclude, Setting Up Landmark Ruling

    A landmark antitrust trial against Google concluded on Friday after a federal judge heard final arguments, setting the stage for a ruling that could...

    Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers

    Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, blindsided competitors, suppliers and his own employees this week by reversing course on his aggressive push to...

    Why Google Employees Aren’t Reacting to US Antitrust Trial

    On Tuesday, Google’s employees gathered for an all-hands meeting named T.G.I.F. These companywide meetings are rarely held on Fridays these days, but the name...

    Google Antitrust Trial Concludes With Closing Arguments

    The biggest U.S. challenge so far to the vast power of today’s tech giants is nearing its conclusion.On Thursday and Friday, lawyers for the...

    Meta and Google Are Betting on AI Voice Assistants. Will They Take Off?

    A pair of glasses from Meta shoots a picture when you say, “Hey, Meta, take a photo.” A miniature computer that clips to your...